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- Title
Film and the Problem of Languages in Africa.
- Authors
Vieyra, Paulin Soumanou
- Abstract
African filmmakers are aware of this issue, and they would rather not spread to cinema the current paradox of African literature, which is written in foreign languages and better known abroad than in Africa itself.[13] We have already witnessed the making of many African films in African languages. There will also be films in African languages simply subtitled in foreign languages, foreign films dubbed in African languages, and foreign films subtitled in those African languages for which a written system has already been fixed. Which technique should be used to dub Western films into African languages or African films into other African languages? [In our previous discussion] we have extended our demonstration [that dubbing films into Wolof would be profitable] to 450 films, the totality of new films distributed yearly in Senegal.
- Subjects
SHORT films; FRENCH films; LANGUAGE &; languages; AFRICAN languages; LANGUAGE policy; MAGNETIC recorders &; recording
- Publication
Black Camera: The New Series, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 2, p393
- ISSN
1536-3155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/blackcamera.12.2.22